Mangaluru: Trading Allied Industrial Services Corporation, Dammam as a part of its corporate social responsibility, organised a charter flight for the repatriation of standard Kannadigas from Dammam to Mangaluru on Saturday, 22nd August.

Allied Corporation in a release noted it received several requests from the stranded expatriates, who failed to avail seats in earlier charted flights due to scarcity of seats. “There were requests from pregnant women, jobless expatriates, patients who required urgent medicals assistance in the home as they could not afford local medical care. There were expatriates with expired work and family visas who were in dire need. Thus, the Allied team extended their support to the plight of fellow Kannadigas and repatriated them back home” it stated.

Allied Corporation repatriated 175 passengers and 12 infants on Saturday including 38 pregnant women, 32 children, 2 cancer and 1 paralyzed patient, and senior citizens.

Allied Corporation specially thanked to Fayaz Muzzain and Irfan Abdul Khader for their support and assistance in fulfilling all required local government formalities. It also extended gratitude to Indian Embassy officials for their support, Imran Falcon and to Mumtaz Ali for assisting locally.

Allied Corporation is owned by Mangalore based Kannadigas Mr Ameer Hussain and Mr Thouseef Ahmed is been operating since 2011 in the city of Al Jubail Saudi Arabia, employing numerous Kannadigas in petrochemical and refineries sectors.

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Varanasi: Comedian Shyam Rangeela has finally filed his nomination papers as an independent candidate from the Varanasi parliamentary constituency on Tuesday, May 14, the last day of filing papers.

Rangeela, who intended to contest against Prime Minister Narendra Modi had alleged on Monday that he was being denied a nomination from the seat, as he along with several other candidates were reportedly made to wait for filling papers on May 10th and May 13th.

Shyam Rangeela, taking to his official ‘X’ handle, wrote, "With your love and support, I have completed all the requirements as per the rules and submitted the nomination. I also have full faith in the democracy of this country. Now the next two-three days are crucial. Thank you all very much for your cooperation. My electoral future rests in the hands of all election officials who are the custodians of our democracy. With the hope that they all strengthen our faith, Yours Shyam Rangeela.”

Alongside, Shyam, BJP candidate Narendra Modi, Log Party's Vinay Kumar Tripathi, BJP's Surendra Narayan Singh, independent candidates Dinesh Kumar Yadav, Reena Rai, Neha Jaiswal, Ajit Kumar Jaiswal, Ashok Kumar Pandey, Sandeep Tripathi filed their nomination papers on Tuesday.

According to the Election Commision of India, a total of 41 candidates have filed nomination papers from the Varanasi constituency.